Inversion of ultrasonic, plane-wave transmission data in composite plates to infer viscoelastic material properties

NDT and E International

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 377-392

  Castaings, M ^a   Hosten, B ^a   Kundu, T ^b  

^a University Bordeaux I2M UMR CNRS 5295   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DAMPING; EPOXY RESINS; GLASS; GLASS FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; ITERATIVE METHODS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; STIFFNESS; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; VISCOELASTICITY;

NEWTON-RAPHSON METHOD; SIMPLEX INVERSION ALGORITHM;

ULTRASONIC TESTING;

EID: 0033706753     PISSN: 09638695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-8695(00)00004-9     Document Type: Article

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